The School of Economics at the

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is a division of the University's College of Humanities and Social Science in

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. While comprising a small school, the subject economics at the University has a long history. The first lessons in economics were delivered by Dugald Stewart in 1800, while

William Ballantyne Hodgson William Ballantyne Hodgson (6 October 1815 – 24 August 1880) was a Scottish educational reformer and political economist. Life The son of William Hodgson, a printer, he was born in Edinburgh on 6 October 1815. In 1820 the family were living ...

was appointed as the first actual economics professor in 1871. The subject's development progressed slowly until the subject became a major, then department and finally a separate school. Having initially been titled the ''Department of Economics'' under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh's Faculty of Social Sciences, the school was moved to a department of the

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, then known as the University of Edinburgh Management School, in 2002. In 2009, the school was renamed as the ''School of Economics'', operating independently under the College of Humanities and Social Science's umbrella.The age of expansion
at the School's official website.

Faculty

* Alexander Gray, chair, 1935-1956. *

John Hardman Moore John Halstead Hardman Moore CBE FBA FRSE (born 7 May 1954) is an economic theorist. He was appointed George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Chair of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics in 2000. In 2018 he was appoi ...

, 2001–present. *

Frederick Ogilvie Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie FRSE (7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949) was a British broadcasting executive and university administrator, who was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors- ...

, chair, 1926-1935. *

Alan T. Peacock Sir Alan Turner Peacock DSC, FBA, FRSE (26 June 1922 – 2 August 2014) was an English economist. Early life Alan Turner Peacock was born in County Durham in 1922. He was the son of the scientist Alexander David Peacock, who in 1926 became Pr ...

, chair, 1956-1962. *

Yongcheol Shin Yongcheol Shin (born 24 December 1960) is a South Korean-born British economist at the University of York. He has previously held positions at leading academic institutions such as University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh and Universit ...

, lecturer, 1998-2000.

References

External links

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UoEdinburgh Economics Blog
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